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Wanted: A Balanced System of Justice
(Sage Publications, 1969)
Under a slightly ruffled surface, the legal system is in ferment. National focus on the plight of the indigent defendant, the void in legal services for the poor, the dearth of treatment facilities, and antiquated correctional ...
Discretionary Decision-Makin in Juvenile Justice
(Sage Publications, 1976)
The social distribution of youths who engage in delinquent behavior is not ,exactly the same as that of youths who come into contact with the juvenile justice system. Thus a certain amount of discretion characterizes the ...
Cost/Benefit Analysis
(Sage Publications, 1973)
The techniques of cost/benefit analysis are presented in a general way in order to encourage decision-makers in the crim inal justice system to adopt a style of thought that will assist them in formulating decisional ...
"Need" and "Overt Act" in Juvenile Court Law
(Sage Publications, 1963)
The current trend of academic analysis of the juvenile court as a treatment organization and the emphasis on treatment aspects of juvenile court activities have led to a popular assump tion that the court applies a criterion ...
The Informal System
(Sage Publications, 1968)
Juvenile correctional programs must bridge the gap between an institution's official system and the delinquent subculture or anti-official system. This paper describes how one program de veloped techniques to utilize the ...
Waiver of Jurisdiction
(Sage Publications, 1963)
A critical evaluation of the waiver process identifies certain inconsistencies between the goals and methods of the juvenile court movement and points out the difficulties resulting from procedures that attempt to reconcile ...
Criminal Enforcement and the IRS
(Sage Publications, 1967)
This nation is run, essentially, by income tax collections, and the Internal Revenue Service painstakingly enforces criminal sanctions on would-be evaders. Tax evasion strikes more directly at the sovereignty, and less ...
Private Enterprise in a Prison
(Sage Publications, 1973)
As illustrated by La Mesa Penitenciaria, near Tijuana in the state of Baja California, the strongest and most pervasive feature of life in the Mexican prison is not the formal administration but the prison's private ...
A Time for Skepticism
(Sage Publications, 1974)
Specific research findings are introduced to demonstrate the absence of reliable data supporting claims for the effectiveness of delinquency treatment programs currently in use. Progress in this field will be encouraged ...